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Missouri Crisis (red)
There was a lot of conflict between whether or not there should be slavery west of the Ohio River -
Missouri Compromise (blue)
The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. -
Nat Turner's Slave Revolt (red)
Led by Nat Turner, rebel slaves killed from 55 to 65 people, the highest number of fatalities caused by any slave uprising in the Southern United States. The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for more than two months afterwards. The rebellion was effectively suppressed at Belmont Plantation on the morning of August 23, 1831. -
William Garrision Publishes The Liberator (red)
An anti-slavery newspaper published by William Garrision -
Annexation of Texas 1844
Texas became part of the United States -
The Wilmot Proviso (red)
The Wilmot Proviso was created to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War -
Compromise of 1850 (blue)
It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former’s favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves. -
Fugitive Slave Law (blue)
All fugitive slaves must be returned to their owners, even if in a free state -
Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin (red)
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel depicts the gruesome horrors of slavery -
Formation of Republican Party 1854 (red)
Anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the mid-western states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act (blue)
Allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. -
Underground Railroad (red)
A network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. -
Bleeding Kansas (red)
A border war between people for slavery and people against slavery -
Dredd Scott Supreme Court Decision (red)
March 6, 1857, ruled that a who had resided in a free state and territory where slavery was prohibited was not entitled to his freedom and that African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States -
Lincon-Douglas Debates (red)
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were political debates Abraham Lincoln, and the incumbent, Stephen A. Douglas, in a campaign for one of Illinois' 2 United States Senate seats -
John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry (red)
An effort by white abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. -
Election of 1860 (red)
Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge.
